Category:Benjamin Osro Eggleston magazine covers

Works by Benjamin Osro Eggleston (1867-1937) have been confused with Edward Mason Eggleston.^[1]

The account of Edward's career published in "The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel (Taschen, 1996) begins as follows: "In the early 1920s, [Edward M.] Eggleston painted movie stars for the covers of film magazines; his 1922 portrait of Betty Compton for Motion Picture Classic was the talk of Hollywood when it hit the newstands." However, those Motion Picture Classic covers, published from at least July, 1921 through August, 1922, were actually done by Benjamin Eggleston, who at least during that period had a very different signature from Edward. Those covers have a signature divided into three lines, with EGG on the top line, LES in the middle, and TON at the bottom, with all three lines enclosed in a square.[1]

1. ↑ ^{a b} Platnick, Norman I. (February 2017) Lady of Mystery: A Collector's Guide to Edward Eggleston version 3.5, p. 5 "those Motion Picture Classic covers, published from at least July, 1921 through August, 1922, were actually done by Benjamin Eggleston...(PDF version book released by Platnick's son)"